Improved door-fastener



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE IV. SAYRE, OF PISGAH, OHIO.

IMPROVED DOOR-FASTENER.

Specification forming part ot' Letters Patent No. 49,656, dated August 29, 1865.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, GEORGE W. SAYRE, of Pisgah, in the county ot' Butler and State of Ohio, have invented anew and uselul Machine for Fastening Doors, Cracking Nuts, Pressing Vial-Oorks to SuitVials, or Nippers or Pliers, Snc.; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ot' the construction and operation ot' the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents the plan of the withindescrihed improvement. Fig. 2 represents its application to a door previous to the thorough closing of the instrument. Fig. 3 represents its application complete.

My improvement consists of two or more pieces ot' steel or iron, b, secured together by a jointorliinge,c,with orwithontafriction-spring to secure a gradual pressure at any point or position, the operator taking the instrument and opening thc same similar to a pocketknife, placing oneend on the tloor andthe other end against the door, as seen at letter B, then with I'oot or hand pressing on the joint with force to secure the points at hot-h ends, and thus forming a straight bolt or fastening complete.

It is evident l'roin the above description that the instrument can likewise be used for other purposes, such as cracking nuts, a corkpress er, or as nippers, pliers, &c., or as a screwdriver.

Thus havingdescribed myimprovementand its application, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The within-described implement, as an article of manufacture.

GEORGE W. SAYRE.

Witnesses:

J. H. PHILLIPS, E. W. W. GRIFFIN. 

